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100+ Plants in the Biblical Garden - R through S
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Ranunculus, Crowfoot, Red Buttercup
Ranunculus asiaticus |
Our short human lives are like grass and flowers... “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls...” - 1 Peter 1:24 |
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Reed
Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. |
While Jesus hung on the cross... “At once one of them ran & got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick [reed], and gave it to him to drink.” -Mt 27:48 |
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Reed, Variegated
Phragmites australis variegatus |
“A bruised reed God will not break, and a dimly burning wick the Lord will not quench; God will faithfully bring forth justice.” - Isaiah 42:3 |
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Rocket, Garden; Arugula
Eruca sativa |
During a famine, Elisha had a servant make a stew including unknown herbs . “They served some for the men to eat. But while they were eating the stew, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" But Elijah added flour and they felt safe to eat. - 2 Kings 4:39-40 |
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Rose, Rugosa
Rosa rugosa |
The Word of God has taken root among God’s people. “I grew tall like a palm tree in En-gedi, and like rosebushes in Jericho” -Wisdom 24:14 |
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Rue
Ruta graveolens |
The rue plant reminds us how easy it is to be religious about little details... "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds, and neglect justice and the love of God...” -Luke 11:42 |
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Rush, Lake ; Bulrush
Scirpus lacustris L. |
A symbol of humility... “Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush, and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? -Isaiah 58:5 |
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Rush, Spiral or Corkscrew
Juncus effusus spiralis |
Contrast our power with God’s... “Can you put a rope in [a monster’s] nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? ...Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot & burning rushes.” -Job 41:2, 20 |
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Rush, Variegated
Eleocharis dulcis variegata |
A nation’s powerlessness before God... “Neither head nor tail, palm branch or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.- Isaiah 19:15 |
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Sage, Dwarf
Salvia officinalis |
Sage was a model for the menorah. “The base and the shaft of the lampstand were made of hammered work; its cups, its calyxes, and its petals were of one piece with it... three branches...out of one side of it and three branches...out of the other..” -Ex. 37:17-18 |
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Silver King
Artemesia ludoviciana albula |
God’s people who ignore injustices done to people at the edge of life, “turn justice to wormwood [bitterness], and bring righteousness to the ground!.” - Amos 5:7 |
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Silver Mound
Artemesia |
In John’s vision of the end of the world, a star fell from heaven. “The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter.” -Revelation 8:11 |
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Southernwood
Artemesia abrotanum |
“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "I am going to make them eat wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread..." -Jeremiah 23:15 |
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Star of Bethlehem, Dove’s Dung
Ornithogalum umbellatum |
“As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove's dung (Star of Bethlehem bulbs] for five shekels of silver.” -2Kings 6:25 |
